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Show DESERET NEWS VOL. 384 NO. 117 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 52 PAGES 1 5 CENTS WEEKEND OF MAY 1 Founded when Utah territory wan known as the State of Deseret METRO 5, 1 976 Campaign '76 Today in the News The 'President Ford Special' whistle-sto- ps DURAND, Mich. (UPI) PieaiJciii Foiu ciosaed ids home state on an campaign train today, declaring we must win the Michigan primary Tuesday to stop Ronald Reagans try for the White House. At this town of about 2,500, a crowd which some supporters estimated at four times the population jammed the trackside and cheered as Ford left the train with his wife, Betty, and began shaking hands in light rain. It was similar to the reception they had received at Flint, where a festive crowd of 3,000 heard Ford say at the start of his six city tour, We must win in Michigan. Ford said the trip is just for-onday, but its the beginning of a through Michigan great trip to No . 2 when were going to win llie election. Let me say very emphatically, I need your help on Tuesday. If you give us the help that I know you will, it will be a tremendous impact across the country. I wont let Michigan down. Dont you let me down. In his trip aboard the two locomotive, seven-ca- r Presidential Special, Ford was trying to avert a potentially disastrous loss in his home state and stop the momentum of Reagan, who has won five out of the past six primaries. -- Ford marched the length of the train after leaving Durand, his mood almost exuberant. Im very encouraged, he told repor ters. Wouldnt turnouts? THE NEXT ARAB OIL EMBARGO will make the last one look like a picnic, Frank Zarb, head of the Federal Energy Administration, said Friday. Zarb told a legislative hearing in Sacramento, "We need to focus on other sources," like coal and nuclear energy. Zarb refused to take an official stand against the California nuclear power initiative, but said that having states go their separate ways would complicate the nation's energy future. you be, by these At Flint, the President the train station crowd, told with your help on Tuesday, we can send a message across the whole United States." Ford, in a conservative blue suit, shook hands with many of the crowd before the train, with its silver presidential coach, pulled out of Flint about 7:35 a m. MDT and headed west. A FEDERAL GRAND JURY found three men guilty Friday of participating in an international smuggling cartel that reportedly grossed $1 million a month. U.S. District Judge Harry Pregerson set sentencing for May 28 in Los A igeles. The three men were arrested last August when authorities seized 12 pounds of pure heroin in Miami. ATTORNEY GENERAL Edward Levi will ask the Supreme Court to vacate the Boston desegregation plan, the New York Times reported today. The Times said Levi would file a friend of the court brief asking the court to reconsider its 1971 decision giving federal courts bread power to enforce school busing. Meanwhile in Washington, a Justice Department spokesman confirmed the Times report, but said no decision has been made and none is expected before midweek. THE RHODESIAN ARMY will beat the life out of any Cuban troops who attack the government. Defense Minister Pieter Van Der Byl said Friday. Reviewing a graduation parade of 200 white recruits, Van Der Byl warned that Cubans still were arriving in Africa and planning new adventures beyond Angola. Meanwhile, the government canceled all of reserexemptions from the emergency call-uvists, citing a tecent upsurge in terrorist incursions. Ford asked his wife, Betty, to trip, join him on the starting in Flint and ending at Niles. He predicted he would gain a majority of 84 GOP convention delegates at stake in the Michigan race by two days of hard 165-mi- le Reagan detours his campaign to the Oklahoma convention Combined AP, UPI Ronald Reagan detoured his Michigan primary for a today campaign the stint before Oklahoma Republican conven- tion. where he Even in Oklahoma was to keynote the convention at which Republicans were expected to elect 18 more delegates to give him all 36 Oklahoma delegates Reagan couldnt escape the significance of Tuesdays Michigan primary. Asked if he expects to beat President Ford in Michigan, Reagan said, Michigan is the crucial one for the President. Its his home state. I think Michigan is of far more importance to him, in the sense that a win is expected for him, but a defeat would be quite a reversal and quite a shock. Reagan labeled himself the It would be someunderdog. thing of a miracle, he said, if he beats Ford. I am a longshot, I am definitely an underdog. old former CaliforThe nia governor left the state Friday night, almost at the same time that Ford arrived for a final weekend of campaigning. ar Democratic frontrunner Jimmy Carter, apparently satisfied he can carry Michigan, also departed. He plans to return for a final Carter left the state to his chief contender, Rep. Morris Udall, and to Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who won 51 percent of the vote in 1972 but is not considered a serious factor in this year's primary. Udall, acknowledging he trails Carter but insisting he is gaining, toured Michigans farm country and witnessed the tragedy left by an outbreak of feed poisoning that has killed thousands of cattle. They say they introduce year 16,000 new chemicals every you're a hand shaker, you've gotta use strategy If FLINT, Mich. UPI The toughest hands for President Ford to shake are in the Middle West. Its the hands of those big husky farmers, they like to said grip like superman. Press Secretary Ron Nessen. The late President Lyndon Johnson had almost a fetish about what called he pressing the flesh and he paid a price for it. At the end of some campaign days of shaking hands in crowds, his fingers dripped blood. Ford sheds no blood. He uses hand strategy. crowds Ford approaches with both hands extended and fingers spread. This maneuver, carried out with all the ease of a well trained judo wrestler, allows him to spread the chore between both hands, thus getting more handshakes per minute. It also gives him the advantage of being able to avoid the normal thumb over thumb handshake which allows his greeter to put pressure on the Presidential fingers and palm. into the industrial and agricultural process and nobody knows what the hell they do, Udall said near Hastings. Im going to look into this. I want to find out whats going on. Sen. Hubert Humphrey told reporters in Oklahoma City the nation should keep its eyes on Jimmy Carters two newest chalSen. Frank Church and lengers California Gov. Jerry Brown. Carter obviously is the leader, Humphrey said, but there are crucial contests ahead and the nomination is open. Sen. Church is not in this for a lark, Humphrey said. I think its a great disservice when you read in the press that Sen. Church and Jerry Brown are just in there as stalking horses. Whats been wrong with this country is that no one was tending the store, he said. Thats what Frank Church did, and thats what Jerry Brown did. Ford's life threatened in Indiana FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) Fort Wavne police, alerted by a Secret Service message from Chicago, arrested and charged a man with threatening President Fords life Friday night, but he was not the man the Secret Service sought. Donald Stamer, 28, of Fort with Wayne was charged of threatening the life the Presi dent and public intoxication. He was not armed. The arrest was made soon after the Secret Service in Cliicago sent a message to police in three states asking they be on the lookout for a youth with an unkempt appearance believed en route to Michigan with a gun after making oral threats against Ford Friday in Milwaukee. U.S. TROOP STRENGTH in Thailand dwindled by another 110 during the past week, a military spokesman said today. Approximalely 2,665 American military personnel remain in Thailand, all of whom must leave before July 20. Only 270 military advisers are to stay. tour late Monday. four-hou- r Police Lt. Vemell Gearhart said the Fort Wayne suspect called the police station and made threats against the President while talking to the dispatcher, Sgt. Donald Heck. Heck kept the suspect on the telephone until police could locate him- - They made tapes of his conversation and arrested him at a telephone booth, Gearhart said. Here's one place you won't find a Howard Hughes will. Likeliest of 'wills' fails experts test A IAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) handwriting expert hired to verify the authenticity of the likeliest of the eight Howard Hughes wills concluded instead that Hughes probably did not write it, increasing the chance that no valid will exists. A lawyer for Noah Dietrich said he may ask for cancellation of a probate court hearing scheduled for next Friday, the first legal forum to take up the tangled will question. We came here to prove something and we didnt prove it, commented the lawyer, Harold Rhoden, after the document was examined Friday by handwriting analyst Charles Sachs of Los Angeles at the request of Dietrich. Dietrich is fighting to establish the authenticity of the document, which names him executor, a position worth more than $2 million in administrative fees. The proliferation of "wills. most of them obvious fakes, continued Friday. Two more were received at the Clark County Courthouse in the mail, including one sent from Beverly Hills, Calif., and the first international mailed from England and entry accompanied by a note signed by Mary Crouchet," a name similar to Mary Cratchet, the mother of Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol. They brought the total to eight, w ith the six already on file at the courthouse, one mailed to the New York Times from Washington and DirCt 1'OUte Rocky Mountain Arsenal for quake aid Nerve gas incidents The United States will Democratic Christian caretaker Italys bypass government to funnel $25 million in disaster aid Friuli region, an directly to the earthquake-stricke- n American official said today. AVIANO, Italy (UPI) Daniel Parker, who is President Fords special coordinator for economic disaster assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told a news conference all U.S. aid would be allotted in direct response to local needs. . In technical terms, it will go though Rome but from a practical point we will identify projects with the local authorities so we will have assurance that funds go for projects identified locally, Parker said. Parker, completing two days of inspection of the disaster area and meetings with officials, said the U.S. aid was humanitarian. He indicated it would not be withdrawn if next months national elections bring the Communists into a coalition government. Four former workers at DENVER (UPI) the Rocky Mountain Arsenal have accused the Army of failing accurately to project the number and severity of accidents at the weapons plant the past 23 years. Ray Laughridge, Ralph Burchfield, Felix Subia and Joe Romero said Friday they lost working time because of accidents at the plant, but their mishaps were excluded from some Army statistics. The Army says 1,397 arsenal employes have been exposed to lethal nerve gas agents since 1953. However, Army statistics show e accidents during that only six span. We were under strict orders not to tell anyone about anything done at the arsenal, said Laughridge, who said he was exposed to lost-tim- ar King, queen The first urgent appeal the United States will fill, he said, is to send experts in preserving and restoring historical structures. King Juan Carlos (UPI) of Spain and Queen Sofia will be the first Spanish oeads of state to visit the United States. The royal couple will visit Washington and New York next month. The Spanish embassy announced Friday that the royal couple had accepted an invitation from President Ford to visit the United States. can tell you unequivocably, Parker said to an there will not be a change. The American response to a disaster is a very human response. It has nothing to do with politics. Parker said he expected Ford to sign the omnibus appropriation bill containing the Italian aid on Tuesday. WASHINGTON another sent to a Texas judge by a Columbus, Ohio, woman. All are flawed by incongruities or impossibilities. The first will, discovered on a desk at headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints in Salt Lake City, was considered the likeliest of the lot. Dietrich, Hughes top aide for 32 years, and at least two handwriting experts said shortly after its discovery that it appeared to be valid. Sachs examined the document for five hours Friday, comparing it with copies of a letter and memos known to be written by Hughes. The probability is that the person who wrote the will did not write the letter," he concluded. About half the letters of the alphabet are formed one way in the purported will and another way in the comparison doements. he said. Meanwhile, the FBI told a to turn over Tennessee a tape recording of his talk with an annonymous telephone caller, who said he helped forgo the document as a prank, to the Clark County District attorney. Jones represents a number of Hughes heir-find- distant cousins. And attorney Harry Clairborne filed a challenge to the first will on behalf of nine persons related to Hughes through his great grandfather, Joshua Hughes. Teamsters end 2 strikes the nerve gas in 1955. Shortly after the exposure, laughridge said he ran into a telephone truck sitting at a traffic intersection and was taken to police headquarters by officers who thought he was under the influence of narcotics. My mind and body werent working To me the said Laughridge. together, intersection was clear, but the truck was there all the time. Someone at the police station found my identification papers and called the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Someone from the arsenal came and took me home. Burchfield said he was exposed to the gas five or six times and missed work about a month, but never was placed on the Armys See ARSENAL on 2 A-- of Spain to visit U.S. Italian journalist, I 1850 They will arrive in Washington June I and will stay at the Blair House. The king will address a joint session of Congress June 3 and exchange state dinners with Ford. Then they will travel to New York, where they will visit the United Nations, inaugurate an exhibit of Goya paintings at the Metropolitan Museum, and dedicate a new Spanish Casa Espanola. cultural and social center United Press International Negotiators reached tentative settlements Friday in Teamsters strikes the nation's against Anheuser-Busch- , United and brewer, against largest Parcel Service in 13 Midwestern states. By early afternoon, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service announced the agreement affecting 8.000 Anheuser-Buscemployes on strike since March I. By Friday night, it had announced a tentative settlement walkout by 14.000 in the Teamsters against UPS. Richard D. Williams, Chicago regional director of the mediation service, said union representatives of 51 Teamster locals affected by the UPS strike unanimously approved the agreement, reached after intensive negotiations in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. Local representatives were to meet with their membership over the weekend to outline terms of the tentative pact, the specifics of which were not released. Pending completion of a mail referendum, UPS employes were to return to work Monday. Striking United Rubber Workers members staged mass picketing that kept salaried workers out of Akron, Ohio, plants of four major tiremakers. CANADIAN POLICE SHOT TO DEATH a suspect in the March 30 robbery of a Brink's armored truck in Montreal, a spokesman said today. The man, who was not a immediately identified, was killed in a west side apartment by members of a poiice squad investigating the $2.8 million holdup, believed to be the biggest in the company's history. VICE PRESIDENT NELSON ROCKEFELLER criticized Soviet imperialism today and called for an increase in western naval power. Rockefeller said "A continuing attempt is under way to organize the world into a new empire in which the Soviet sun never sets." Demonstrators shouted slogans outside St. Paul's Church, where Rockefeller and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt addressed a West German crowd celebrating the U.S. Bicentennial. 117-ve- A NEW CEASE-FIRrestored some calm to Lebanon today, and Palestinian guerrilla chief Yasser Arafat prepared to visit Damascus to repair battered relations with Syria. The truce took hold gradually, however. More than 75 persons died and more than 130 were wounded in overnight fighting. Palestinian troops pulled out of the fighting, obeying an order from Arafat. E WOMEN CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SUED the Labor Department Friday, claiming it condoned a pattern of discrimination that kept them out of the industry. The suit asked a U.S. District Court to order Labor Secretary W.J. Usery to implement government laws requiring federal contractors to hire specific numbers of women. THE HELSINKI SUMMIT has not been able to remove the barriers and mutual suspicions between East and West, a Library of Congress study says. Sen. John Tunney, who released the findings Friday, said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger should talk with Soviet and other Eastern Europe leaders about their failure to carry out the human rights provisions of the accord. The report, prepared by Francis Miko, a research analyst, says "Soviet leaders thus far have complied only in those areas which would have the least domestic impact." HOWARD CALLAWAY clearly used his influence as Army secretary to try to enlarge his Colorado ski resort, the chairman of the Senate panel investigating the matter said Friday. Sen. Floyd Haskell, said there is no doubt that Callaway brought political pressure to bear, "but whether the attempt was even necessary is an open question." MOST INDIANS WELCOMED the agreement by India and Pakistan to reestablish full diplomatic relations Friday and end more than four years of bickering and hostility. A joint communique issued by the negotiators said the two nations agreed to restore full diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors fairly shortly. The move was hailed as "long overdue and the harbinger of good and better things to come." UTAH WEATHER High pressure is rebuilding over the state- Fair through Sunday. Highs 75 to 80. Lows tonight general-l- y . - h J 1 40 to 45. Zones 1, 2, (Cache 10 Wasatch Front, northwest deserts') Valiev, Clearing bv this afternoon. Then, fair through Sundav. Highs 75 in Logan to 8C in Provo. Lows 40 to 45. Windy at times. Zones 3, 4 (Delta, Milford, Cedar City, Sevier Valiev) Fair tonignt and Sunday. Lows around 38. Highs from 80 in Delta to 84 in Cedar City. Zone 5 (Utah's Fair. Cooler Dixie) tonight. Warmer Sundav. lows near 48, highs about 85. Zones 6, 8 (Uintah Basin, BecomCarbon County) ing fair tonight and staving that wav through Sundav. Lows around 40, with highs near 80 Zones 7, (Southeast Utah, Canvonlands, Lake Powell) Gusty winds at times. Fair through dav. Highs from 75 in and Blanding to Moab and at the lake. National weather map, area summary on if A-- SunMon-ticell- o 85 in |
